Halloween is just around the bend, and Japan has us up to our eyeballs in ghosts, skeletons, spider webs, and black cats. Especially black cats, much to our delight! In the city of Himeji in Miyagi Prefecture, our RocketNews24 sister site Pouch ha...

This is today's daily Super Smash Bros. screenshot from the game's official website: In case, you're having trouble telling, that's Xerneas from Pokémon X. On Miiverse, game director Masahiro Sakurai teases: "Pic of the day.

Kumo Project is the work of air conditioning otaku and techies who hope to project images onto clouds. The challenge is to study clouds such that they can predict the appropriate meteorological conditions as well as develop the needed projection t...

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle will have character names changed for the west, Namco Bandai have shared with Siliconera. Because JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is heavily inspired by music, it's always been a challenge to bring to the west ...

Bones is set to adapt Toka Adachi's (Alive: The Final Evolution) Noragami, about a minor deity hoping to one day attract a shrine and followers, and a bullied girl, with storyboard artist Kotaro Tamura (Gosick's opening) directing and Toshihiro Ka...

TIFF kicked off Thursday at the Roppongi Hills complexTOKYO (TR) – An appearance by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday highlighted the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo International Film Festival, an event in its 26th year.

Atlus and Aniplex have shared a new trailer for the first Persona 3 movie, titled Persona 3 Movie #1: Spring of Birth, slated for release in Japan on November 23rd. Watch the new trailer below. Video game stories from other sites on the web.

This gorgeous volume is a shiny new hardcover edition, with 12 pages of color artwork and the entire snail-boy having, ear-shattering chronicle in one handy place at last. You can pick it up over at Amazon now, but only if you promise to send it t...

Beyond The Boundary Episode 3The world gets a little more complicated in a number of different ways. What They Say: The Hollow Shadow is drawing near. Akihito knows that Mirai wants to risk her life in a fight against the powerful youmu.

Samurai Flamenco Episode 2 Two wrongs certainly don't make a right, so let's all not steal umbrellas. What They Say: Shibiru City is now home to a superhero named Samurai Flamenco. By pure chance, policeman Goto Hidenori learns the identity of Sam...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency is teaming with NASA for a "special satellite project" which is of interest to us because they've contracted White Fox to animate six minutes of moe anime explaining it.

XSEED Games Release First (English) Screenshots and Character Details for Ys: Memories of Celceta by Sam XSEED Games have released their first batch of English localized screenshots for their upcoming RPG release of Ys: Memories of Celceta, develo...

Amazon Japan pre-order page revealed the cover Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Character Song Album. The cover features the 10th Kyoryuger, KyoryuSilver. The album features songs performed by the actors in the series.

We're Giving Away A Free Digital Copy Of 'Pokémon Y' Haven't had a chance to pick up the latest Pokémon game for 3DS yet? Worry not, Albotas has your back! We're giving away a free download code for Pokémon Y that can be redeemed on the Nintendo e...

The 2014 PS Vita game Sword Art Online – Hollow Fragment has released a new key visual for that gives us our first look at one of the new characters that will be a part of it. The game isthe follow up to the Infinity Moment PSP game that was relea...

The TOWER RECORDS Shinjuku store in Tokyo has announced the weekly TOP 10 anime single/album of October 7-13. The number one single of the 41st week of year 2013 is "the fantasy band" Sound Horizon's 4th single "Halloween to Yoru no Monogatari" (H...

Reptile Games Launch Megabyte Punch on Steam by Sam Indie video game developer Reptile Games have announced that their latest title, Megabyte Punch, is now available for purchase via the Steam store, and for its first week will be available at 20%...

Tokyo Ravens Episode 2 Harutora is still trying to just deal with everyday life, but life is ready to send him some curveballs. What They Say: After the festival, Hokuto is mad at Harutora, and Harutora and Natsume meet to sort out family issues.

With the movie filmed and ready to premiere on January 18, 2014, a new set of publicity photos offer a look at the main and supporting cast for the live-action movie spin-off of Yana Toboso's Black Butler manga.

Hikasa Yoko "Seek Diamonds" PV Preview & Jacket Covers Revealed! Hikasa Yoko 3rd single release, titled Seek Diamonds, is scheduled for a 13 November 2013 release and it is the ED for currently airing anime series Ace of Diamond.